Politics & Government
Five Things: Smooth Jazz & a Hot Pepper Festival
Prep yourself for a great autumn week in today's Five Things.

- Go with your heart at a that meets tonight at 7 pm at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital at Rahway in Conference Room No. 3. Registration is required. Call 732-499-6073 for more information.
- Go 'Viral' at a Rutgers tonight. Islamophobia and anti-Semitism experts Kenneth Stern and Jack G. Shaheen will lecture on 'Going Viral: Anti-Semitism, Islamophobia and the Role of the Media' tonight at 7:30 pm. The free event will be held at Trayes Hall in the Douglass College Campus Center of Rutgers. For more info, call 732-932-2033.
- Groove to some smooth jazz tonight at Rutgers in New Brunswick. The Mason Gross School presents at 8 pm at the Nicholas Music Center. For more info, call 732-932-7511. The concert is free.
- Get registered for The Fantastic Fall Hot Pepper Harvest, to take place on Friday, Oct. 21 at the EARTH Center at Davidson’s Mill Pond Park from 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm. The aims to introduce attendees to the love of hot peppers and will feature some great recipes. Registration is required, and the workshop cost is $20. For more info, call 732-398-5262.
- Visit an art exhibition at Middlesex County College. "Disillusions: Gendered Visions of the Caribbean and its Diasporas,” continues at the college's Studio Theatre Gallery through Nov. 8. The is open weekdays from 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. For more info, email artgallery@middlesexcc.edu or call 732-906-2589.
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